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Innocence erased Black children are 18 more times likely to be tried as adults than are white children.

It is a statistic that Phillip Atiba Goff, a social psychologist who studies racial disparities in the criminal justice system, says must not be overlooked in the debate surrounding the allegation

that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a girl when he was a teenager.

Some, including people who say they opposed Kavanaugh’s nomination on ideological grounds, have asked if it’s fair to judge him as an adult for something that he is accused of having done when

he would have been 17 years old.

This kind of consideration is rarely extended to black boys, said Goff, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and co-founder and president of the Center for Policing Equity.

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Report: Black children continue to be sent to adult courts, jails at ‘alarmingly’ high rates Juvenile arrest rates have fallen sharply in recent years, but black youth are disproportionately sent to adult court by judges at some of the highest percentages seen in 30 years, according to a joint report from the Campaign for Youth Justice (CFYJ) and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW).

The new report, The Color of Youth Transferred to the Adult Criminal Justice System: Policy and Practice Recommendations, discusses how the egregious practice of prosecuting and incarcerating black youth as adults, which is rooted in our nation’s past and ongoing racism, has had a devastating impact on black youth and the black community.

Black children sent to adult jails and prisons are more likely to die by suicide, suffer from mental illness, and recidivate once they return to their communities than their peers in the juvenile justice system.

“Research has proven that adults courts and jails are no place for children -- the brain development of youth is markedly different from adults and they are more prone to risk taking and not thinking through the consequences of their actions,” said NASW Social Justice and Human Rights Manager Mel Wilson.

“Youth involved in the justice system are also more likely to have mental health needs and have suffered from trauma so they need rehabilitation and treatment services that are not provided in most adult jails.”

“This brief dives into the historical context of racial terror inflicted on black communities that has shaped

the foundation of systemic policies, practices, and procedures that compound disproportionality,” said CFYJ Policy Director Jeree Thomas.

"This is a symptom of chronic and systemic racism beyond the confines of the justice system itself, but we believe that intentional advocacy and transformative thinking by social workers, attorneys, youth advocates, and system leaders can begin to redress this issue in states across the country.”

CFYJ and NASW looked at the rate of black youth who were sent to adult courts in Oregon, Florida and Missouri, three states that report their adult court transfer rates disaggregated by race.

In Oregon, while black youth are 2.3 percent of the state’s population, they are 15.8 percent of youth transferred to adult court in 2017.

Similarly, in Florida, although black youth make up just 21 percent of the youth population, they accounted for

67.7 percent of youth transferred to adult court in 2016.

Missouri is one of the first states to urge judges to consider racial disparities before transferring youth to adult courts. Still in 2016, black youth made up 14.8 percent of the youth population age 10 to 17, but 72 percent of youth that judges referred to adult courts, even though they accounted for 40 percent of youth charged with felony offenses.

CFYJ and NASW encourage advocates and social workers across the country to take action and mobilize against the adultification of black youth in the criminal justice system. These actions include: -- Getting local officials such as county government and city council members to recognize the importance of keeping all youth, and especially youth of color, out of the adult criminal justice system.

-- Advocating for prosecutors to adopt transparent procedures

around the decision to transfer youth to adult courts.

-- Passing legislation that would require a look at the racial impact of bills that increase the number of youth who are prosecuted, sentenced and incarcerated as adults.

-- Requiring more social workers be part of the defense team of juveniles because social workers can propose treatment and sentencing options that keep youth out of adult courts and jails.

-- Researching and developing community-based alternatives to incarceration for youth who are sent to adult courts.

“The reason why black youth are sent to adult courts and jails at higher rates are based on generations of institutionalized racism in the United States,” said Wilson. “Federal, state and local officials must aggressively collect data and review their policies and practices to ensure they are not disproportionately harming black youth and black communities.”

“We are seeing that black males of any age receive more punitive outcomes compared to other groups.

For example, in Florida, there is recent research that indicates that black male youth are more likely to receive a jail or prison sentence rather than community-based alternatives, and more likely to receive a longer jail and prison sentence than their peers,” said Thomas. “This research highlights the need to continue to address the root causes of disproportionate minority contact and racial and ethnic disparities for youth transferred to the adult system.”

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Report details strengths, recommendations for school division’s exceptional education program An independent report that examined Henrico County Public Schools’ exceptional education program makes 27 recommendations to build on the program’s strengths.

The 78-page document, “A Review of Equity and Parent Engagement in Special Education in Henrico County Public Schools,” was commissioned in early 2018 by the school division’s former superintendent, Patrick C. Kinlaw, and John Vithoulkas, Henrico county manager.

The report was presented to the School Board last week. The four authors interviewed more than 100 parents, educators, advocates, lawyers and community leaders.

They analyzed data from Henrico Schools and compared HCPS to similar school divisions.

The report looked largely at four areas of the division’s exceptional education program: placement and identification of students with disabilities, student discipline, parent and family engagement, and staffing. The report cited things the school division is doing well, while making recommendations for improvements. A number of the report’s suggestions are in line with Henrico Schools’ current initiatives, or are part of improvements the division had undertaken before the review was conducted.

Amy Cashwell, Henrico Schools superintendent, said, “This review is a tremendous step toward building on our successes while also getting independent perspectives on where we can grow. Every school division has room for improvement, and we believe that Henrico is leading the region by not only asking for this review in the first place, but also working with our community to take the next steps together.”

The report’s authors were:

Anne Holton, a visiting professor at George Mason University, former Virginia secretary of education and former Virginia first lady; Adai Tefera, an assistant professor at VCU’s School of Education specializing in how educational policies affect equity among students; Melissa Cuba, an evaluation specialist with Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium and a doctoral student in the VCU School of Education, and a former special education and foreign language teacher in Arlington County; and Ashlee Lester, a doctoral student in VCU’s School of Education studying educational psychology.

“The School Board is very grateful to Anne Holton and her team for their extensive review,” said Micky Ogburn, School Board chair representing the Three Chopt District. “As expected, there were many examples of what’s working in our school division. For those items that need more attention we’re happy to share that we have several efforts in place already.”

The review cited as strengths HCPS’ high rate of including students with disabilities in general education classes, and the fact that the division isn’t identifying students disproportionately according to race. It also cited the division’s drop in out-of-school student suspensions, a byproduct of HCPS’ revised Code of Student Conduct and implementation of a number of behavioral support programs. Reviewers said that most HCPS parents and guardians are satisfied with many aspects of their students’ special education services, and that the school division had dedicated, effective special education teachers whose morale was generally high.

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$32m project to bring hundreds of apartments near VUU J. ELIAS O’NEAL RBiz - An old Northside Richmond postal warehouse soon could make way for more than 200 apartments on Brook Road.

A development team led

by Richmond-based general contractor Loughridge & Company Construction Services is slated to construct a nearly $32 million, 224unit apartment complex at 2009 Brook Road near Virginia Union University’s campus.

The group is seeking a special use permit to rezone the 4.5-acre site from industrial to multifamily residential in order to capitalize on the city’s VUU/Chamberlayne Neighborhood Plan specifying more dense residential uses near the university and the surrounding neighborhood.

Plans call for the existing warehousing facility on a 3.3-acre site at 2009 Brook Road and an adjoining 0.73-acre wooded lot at 2011 Northumberland Ave. to be scrapped.

Rising in its place would be two four-story buildings, according to a site plan filed with the city’s planning and development division.

A building along Brook Road would house 118 apartments, while the other building along Roberts Street would include 106.

The properties are owned by W Brook Road LLC, an entity tied to Kimberly Kidd and Dennis Alan Williford Jr. of Charles City. They paid $635,000 to purchase the properties from the U.S. Postal Service in August 2011.

John Waechter, Loughridge’s director of business development, said the property would have one main entryway via Brook Road.

He added the building via Roberts Street would be a height-restricted, covered parking entrance for residents.

The project would wrap around the 103-unit Spectrum apartment building at 2017 Brook Road, which

A new $32 million apartment development called Brook Road Apartments is slated for 2009 Brook Road in the city’s Northside.

(Courtesy of Cox, Kliewer & Co.) was acquired in February 2017 by Mercer Street Partners, a New Yorkbased real estate investment firm, for $11.4 million.

Mercer Street Partners is not affiliated with the Brook Road apartment project.

Construction is slated to begin during summer 2019 and take about 14 months to complete, Waechter said, pending city approval.

The city’s planning commission is slated to take up the request was its Oct. 1 meeting. City Council is set to vote on the matter during its Oct. 8 meeting.

Units at the apartments will be market-rate, Waechter said, with starting rent for a one-bedroom going for about $1,000 a month. The unit mix would consist of 61 studio units, 90 one-bedroom units and 73 two-bedroom apartments.

“We certainly will not discourage students from leasing these units,” Waechter said. “But it’s certainly not a project designed with students in mind. We see this as a place for young professionals, as well as teachers, fire and police responders.”

Other amenities include a pocket park at the rear of the property, a two-story clubhouse, pool, fitness

center, and over 200 parking spaces, among others. (Courtesy of Cox, Kliewer & Co.) Aside from staple high-end interior finishes for each unit, other complex amenities include a pocket park at the rear of the property, a two-story clubhouse, pool, fitness center, dog park, onsite residential storage units, a bike maintenance and storage facility, and 268 parking spaces, of which 21 will be covered.

“In designing this project, we and the city thought that it would be important to encourage residents to be outside,” Waechter said. “Adding the pocket park was an important amenity for us to include in this development.”

The apartment project also includes several sidewalk connections, along with bike rack stations throughout the property.

Eventually, if the city decides to adopt a plan to add bike lanes along Brook Road, Waechter said their development will be ready for residents willing to use the pathway to commute downtown.

“We see it as an added amenity, and in designing this project, kept the possibility of such a project in

mind,” Waechter said. “From this location, it’s a 10- to 15-minute mountain bike ride into the Central Business District.”

Loughridge & Company will serve as the general contractor of the project, while Virginia Beach-based Cox, Kliewer & Co. is the architect.

Kimley Horn is the civil engineer on the project.

Once completed, Newport Newsbased Drucker & Falk has been secured as the apartments’ primary leasing and management authority.

Developers and investors are finding their way to Northside, with several taking aim along Brook Road and the Chamberlayne Avenue. The 301-unit Canopy at Ginter Park is under construction at 3401 Brook Road.

Waechter said as VCU gobbles up more territory in the Carter and Monroe Ward neighborhoods, investors are looking to Northside – making the area around VUU a more viable option for increased redevelopment, infill and new construction activity.

“We see this as a very ripe opportunity,” Waechter said. “There is a lot of activity happening in this area, and we’re excited about this project.”

FYI

Representatives from a national organization will be conducting an on-site assessment of the Richmond Department of Emergency Communications this month, and they want the public’s opinion as part of the assessment.

The Department of Emergency Communications has invited assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) to examine all aspects of the policy and procedures, management, operations and professional services of the city’s emergency communications center.

Members of the public are invited to offer comments by telephone, 1-3 p.m., on Oct. 9. The public should call 1-213-289-3427 with PIN 159407.

Telephone comments are limited to 10 minutes and must address the agency’s ability to comply with the CALEA commission’s standards.

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VDSS adopts technology solutions to support its child welfare programs The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) has joined a cadre of six social services systems across the country in leading the effort to modernize its child welfare information system through the implementation of new and innovative technologies. COMPASS, which represents Virginia's Comprehensive Permanency Assessment and Safety System, has embarked on a multi-phased project to integrate web-based tools designed to accelerate service delivery and improve outcomes for Virginia’s children and families.

Created in response to new federal regulations and funding set forth by the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS), the COMPASS program will equip nearly 2,000 front-line child welfare workers and 120 local departments of social services with 21st century technological tools to better optimize child welfare services. The program also aligns with Gov. Ralph Northam’s executive order directing the use of cloud technologies in the delivery of Virginia’s information technology services.

As part of this effort, VDSS has partnered with RedMane Technology as the vendor for its COMPASS mobile app, which will assist workers with the everyday tasks of documenting the work they conduct to ensure the safety, permanency and well-being for the children of the Commonwealth. RedMane brings to Virginia’s COMPASS Program more than 17 years of expertise creating human services technology and software solutions that address complex, real-world challenges.

“Supporting our child welfare workforce with industry leading tools is a critical component in advancing our core mission to serve, empower, and create opportunities

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF ORDER ESTABLISHING FURTHER PROCEEDINGS TO IMPLEMENT ADJUSTMENTS IN RATES FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX OBLIGATIONS OF VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY D/B/A DOMINION ENERGY VIRGINIA CASE NO. PUR-2018-00055 During its 2018 Session, the Virginia General Assembly enacted Senate Bill 966 (the “Bill”). The Bill was signed into law by the Governor of Virginia on March 9, 2018, as Chapter 296 of the 2018 Acts of Assembly. The Bill became effective July 1, 2018.

Among its provisions, Enactment Clause 6 of the Bill directs the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) to:

implement adjustments in the rates for generation and distribution services of incumbent electric utilities, as defined in § 56-576 of the Code of Virginia, effective April 1, 2019, to reflect the actual annual reductions in corporate income taxes to be paid by such utilities pursuant to the provisions of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (P.L. 115-97) and as of the effective date of such act.

Enactment Clause No. 7 of the Bill directs, in advance of the Commission’s determination as to rate reductions pursuant to Enactment Clause No. 6, Dominion Energy Virginia (“DEV” or “Company”) to “reduce its existing rates for generation and distribution services on an interim basis, within 30 days of July 1, 2018” by an amount “sufficient to reduce its annual revenues from such rates by an aggregate amount of $125 million.” The amount of the identified rate reduction is “attributable to reductions in the corporate income tax obligations of the utility pursuant to the provisions of the federal Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017[.]”

Enactment Clause No. 7 further states: In implementing any further reductions to the rates for generation and distribution services of … [DEV] effective April 1, 2019, pursuant to the sixth enactment of this act, the Com- ission shall consider this interim revenue requirement reduction, and its actions shall be limited to a true-up of this interim reduction amount to the actual annual reduction in corporate tax obligations of such utility as of the effective date of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017…

On April 16, 2018, the Commission issued an Order Directing Compliance Filings to Reflect Reductions in Federal Income Taxes (“Order”) pursuant to Enactment Clause No. 7 of the Bill. As directed by that Order, DEV submitted the required compliance filing on May 16, 2018, with revised tariffs and workpapers implementing the rate reductions directed in Enactment Clause No. 7. DEV subsequently filed certain revised tariff sheets and revised workpapers on June 14, 2018.

On September 11, 2018, the Commission entered an Order Establishing Further Proceedings that, among other things, directed DEV to file certain information (“Filing”), on or before October 9, 2018, quantifying the actual annual reduction in DEV’s corporate income tax obligations pursuant to the provisions of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

In addition, the Order Establishing Further Proceedings scheduled a public hearing on January 14, 2019, at 10 a.m., in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive testimony from members of the public and evidence related to the Filing from the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness at this hearing should appear in the Commission’s courtroom fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

Commissioner S. Duke Storen for brighter futures for Virginians,” said VDSS Commissioner Duke Storen. “We are committed to continuous improvement and will continue to explore innovative technologies and strategies to realize better outcomes for children and families served by VDSS.” Through the use of this modernized technology, workers will now have ready-access to the most current case documentation, assessment and plans available while serving children and families in their homes and communities. New tools such as dashboards, e-signature capability and a robust reporting system will also be available to staff to ensure process adherence and effective resource allocation.

VDSS will work collaboratively with local departments of social services and community partners to ensure a seamless and effective implementation in late 2019.

The Company’s Filing and the Commission’s Order Establishing Further Proceedings are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Lisa S. Booth, Esquire, Dominion Energy Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

Copies of the public version of all documents filed in this case also are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center, located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing a notice of participation on or before October 23, 2018. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by Rule 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00055.

On or before November 30, 2018, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of such testimony and exhibits shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. Respondents also shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00055.

On or before January 7, 2019, any interested person may file written comments on the Filing with the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. Interested persons desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before January 7, 2019, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00055.

All documents filed with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order Establishing Further Proceedings in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address above.

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Op/Ed & Letters

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The deafening drumbeat of the unfree STEPHEN COOPER Above the din of disturbing news – that discordant banging you’re hearing, steadily getting louder and louder, that you can no longer ignore – that’s the drumbeat of the unfree.

Dehumanized by the labels “prisoner,” “inmate” and “convict,” even reduced to serial numbers like Victor Hugo’s Jean Valjean in “Les Misérables,” these men and women are, just like you and me, or any mortal – irrespective of flaws, frailties, even felonious acts and misdemeanors – endowed with the right to be treated with dignity, decency and respect.

Advancing 10 specific demands as a rallying cry in prisons nationwide, these brave incarcerated souls are striking by: not eating, refusing to do prison work, engaging in sit-ins, and taking part in myriad other acts of nonviolent resistance that could, nonetheless – given the carceral, contentious environment they’re taking place in – quickly trigger violence (even reprisals, including the nefarious, all-too-frequent imposition of solitary confinement).

So what can you do? At a minimum, read the list of demands; they’re not long and considerable thought and effort went into crafting them. Since the very act of striking The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 4 No. 40 Mailing Address 409 E. Main Street 4 Office Address 105 1/2 E. Clay St. Richmond, VA 23219 Call 804-644-1550 Online www.legacynewspaper.com

places the safety of the strikers in greater jeopardy, it’s the least you, as a civic-minded, compassionate citizen, can do.

Once informed, please support and amplify these reasonable demands for prison reform. As conscientious, justice-loving Americans, we must, all of us, collectively join the call to implement this list of humble reforms through the power of our pocketbooks, our votes, our voices and, perhaps most importantly, our resolve.

All of us have a part to play in pressuring legislators, correctional officials, and all the many state and federal bureaucrats with clout to end unseemly, unsatisfactory “slave labor” practices behind bars; these are grossly unfair regulations which pay nothing (or next to nothing) for work done in prison – even The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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indisputably backbreaking, lifethreatening, heroic work.

Please support and amplify these reasonable demands for prison reform. As conscientious, justiceloving Americans, we must, all of us, collectively join the call to implement this list of humble reforms through the power of our pocketbooks, our votes, our voices and, perhaps most importantly, our resolve.

We must demand an end to the insidious institutional racism that keeps so many of our brothers and sisters, disproportionately black and brown-skinned, languishing behind bars – unfairly, unproductively, disconsolately, for far, far too long.

In the purported “land of the free” and “home of the brave,” we have to end our horribly destructive, dysfunctional reliance on physically and psychologically ripping our people apart from their friends, family, and communities – often setting them up to return to prison again, later, in a maddening, selfperpetuating, defeating cycle, to serve even harsher, more punitive sentences. Federal judge Raymond J. Dearie, formerly the United States Attorney in Brooklyn, once aptly lamented: “Why this love affair in this country with

lengthy incarceration, to our great embarrassment as a civilized nation?”

No longer can we tolerate the pervasive rehabilitative deprivations and despicably inhumane living conditions that define our penal system. As a Norwegian prison “governor” and clinical psychologist eloquently and pragmatically cautioned in a 2014 piece exploring “Why Norway’s prison system is so successful”: “In the law, being sent to prison is nothing to do with putting you in a terrible prison to make you suffer. The punishment is that you lose your freedom. If we treat people like animals when they are in prison they are likely to behave like animals. Here we pay attention to you as human beings.”

We must follow the sage advice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who, in demanding an end to racial discrimination in 1963, famously articulated the “fierce urgency of now”; for it is that same unrelenting, unquelled urgency that no less characterizes our nation’s longlagging need for meaningful, farreaching prison reform.

In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Rev. King poignantly observed

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Inequality issues

We live in a divided country. And I don’t just mean politically.

The last few decades have produced great inequality of wealth and with it, unequal access to the levers of power. We’re split along regional lines. We’re divided along rural and urban lines.

We increasingly struggle with differences of race, religion, and class.

We’re also divided politically and ideologically. Abortion, gun rights, same-sex marriage, the use and abuse of police power, curbs on corporate power, environmental protection: these issues elicit strong feelings and cut deeply through the electorate.

These divides permeate our politics in ways that, a generation ago, would have been unthinkable.

It’s not just that public debate has become coarser, less civil, and more mean-spirited. It’s that partisanship is being woven into places we once believed were safe from it, such as the courts.

So what do we do about this?

The answer, actually, is not complicated.

We have to boost public understanding about how to participate in the process. We have to be more mindful about the quality of public dialogue. We have to appreciate the roles of cooperation, collaboration, and compromise in a representative democracy.

This means listening carefully and trying to understand the other’s point of view. It means figuring out how to accommodate differences, so that rather than every fight producing winners and losers, everyone can walk away with something gained. It means recognizing that we’re all searching for the common good.

The greatness of our country rests on shared ideals that go beyond party labels. Most Americans want to believe that better days are ahead, that progress is possible, and that major policy disagreements may not be easily resolved, but do yield to discussion that is carried on rationally and with civility and respect.

One peculiarity of this time of great unease, when lack of confidence in the country and its institutions is rampant and our differences are accentuated, is that it comes at a moment of economic growth. In the past, it’s usually been a sour economy that exacerbated divisions.

That’s a puzzle, but it’s also an opportunity. It means that we have a prosperous economic backdrop that should allow us more easily to find common ground with one another, as I’ve seen happen in the past. It’s time

to step up our game, move past our differences, and propel the country forward.

Lee Hamilton

Responding to survivors

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford recounted her experience of sexual assault before a committee comprising mostly older white men. Women and other victims of abuse held their collective breath.

The details were familiar. The resulting trauma — anxiety, fear of flying, claustrophobia — resonated.

Survivors listened — and they were recalled their worst experiences.

How will the church step up? We all want our churches to be a safe space for survivors to be heard and to heal. But a recent survey shows us that while 90 percent of pastors encounter domestic and sexual violence through their work, only 50 percent believe they have sufficient training to address it. We want to change that.

Every pastor should be equipped to address domestic and sexual violence in their ministry. And we can begin by looking to those pastors who have already started. In January we invited pastors and parishioners to send us sermons on domestic and sexual violence, hoping to have 100 by the end of the year. By July, we had nearly 150. We’ve compiled the sermons, along with other resources, for ministers to take and use within their own communities.

People of faith and pastors need to step up to let survivors in their

communities know they are heard, they are believed, and they are supported Jim Wallis

(from page 6) that “[t]here comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men [and women] are no longer willing to be plunged in the abyss of despair.” It is this dark and ominous feeling that currently dominates morale inside America’s prisons today; danger is the foreseeable consequence.

We must demand an end to the insidious institutional racism that keeps so many of our brothers and sisters, disproportionately black and brown-skinned, languishing behind bars – unfairly, unproductively, disconsolately, for far, far too long.

Outside of our too numerous prisons, with their too crowded confines, the need for people with integrity to speak up and to act out on behalf of achieving prison reform is every bit as pressing. For as Dr. King elegantly concluded in his book “Why we can’t wait”: “The bell of man’s inhumanity to man does not toll for any one man, it tolls for you, for me, for all of us.”

Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the United States and overseas. He writes fulltime and lives in Woodland Hills, California. Follow him on Twitter @ SteveCooperEsq.

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Black men are less religious than black women, but more religious than white women and men KIANA COX & JEFF DIAMANT Research has shown that men in the United States are generally less religious than women. And while this pattern holds true among black Americans – black women tend to be more religious than black men – black men are still a highly religious group. In fact, black men are not only more religious than white men, but they also tend to be more religious than white women, a Pew Research Center analysis shows.

Black men are also more religious than Hispanic men and at least as religious as Hispanic women on a number of key indicators of religious observance.

Most black men are highly religious – but not as religious as black women

About seven-in-ten (69 percent) black men say religion is very important to them, compared with 80 percent of black women. But black men place more importance on religion than white women (55 percent) and Hispanic women (65 percent), according to the 2014 Religious Landscape Study.

The same dynamic holds true when it comes to belief in God. Roughly eight-in-ten (78 percent) black men say they believe in God with “absolute certainty,” a higher level of belief than is found among white women (67 percent) and Hispanic women (65 percent), though, again, lower than the level of belief seen among black women (86 percent).

The center notes that it also uses a scale that combines responses to four questions – frequency of prayer, belief in God, attendance at religious

Richmond councilman, pastor, gets engaged Well, it’s not spring but love is in the air. Richmond city Councilman and pastor of the city’s Village of Faith church, Pastor Dr. Michael Jones, surprised his longtime girlfriend, June Cober, an Atlantic Records director of promotions, by popping the question during a ruse.

Jones lured Cober to a public park for what she thought was going to be the filming of a video to promote an

Pastor Michael Jones proposes to June Cober upcoming church event. During the filming, Jones surprised Cober and the camera crew, when he went off-

services and importance of religion in their lives – to classify Americans’ levels of religious belief and practice as high, moderate or low.

On this scale, black men (70 percent) are less likely than black women (83 percent) to be categorized as highly religious. At the same

time, they are more likely than white women (58 percent) and roughly as likely as Hispanic women (67 percent) to be in the highly religious category. They are also much more likely than Hispanic men (50 percent) and white men (44 percent) to be highly religious.

script and began to propose to her.

She tearfully accepted.

“June and I are happy that our two families are uniting as one,” Jones said. “God has given me a new daughter (Laila, 8), and He has given June both a new son (Jalon, 17) and daughter (Jocelyn, 20). We are tremendously blessed to find love and are super excited about taking on the world together.”

Cober, who has worked with Jones on many of his professional and philanthropic endeavors, said she fell in love with “Mike as a cheerleader for the work he does in the community and all he represents. He’s a rare and special man, I can’t wait to work hand-inhand with him as his wife.”

The couple plans to wed in 2019.

After the proposal video was shown during one of Jones’ Sunday morning services, the congregation erupted into rapturous applause.

Stellar Award nominated recording artist, Earnest Pugh, who is senior worship leader at the Village of Faith, said, “I don’t believe I have ever witnessed the end of a Sunday morning service that was so emotional and wonderful. The congregation and I stood in awe as Pastor Jones played the video of the proposal as he was about to dismiss the service.

“The whole place went into praise.

I can only imagine the wedding, which I know will be an epic time of celebration and fellowship.”

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At UVa., Kaine discusses religion in public life MELISSA CASTRO About an hour before he was scheduled to speak at the University of Virginia about the role of religion in public life, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., pulled out a bag of harmonicas and performed a rendition of “My Home is Across the Blue Ridge Mountains” after meeting with The Daily Progress recently.

It’s a skill he taught himself, and he occasionally plays the harmonica as part of his Catholic church choir when he’s not using it to try to Sen. Tim Kaine speaks to students and faculty at UVa. charm constituents.

PHOTO: Zack Wajsgras It’s part of his “aw-shucks” director of the Virginia Center for calculus. persona, but it also fits in with a He doesn’t think either of those Quaker exhortation he later dropped the Study of Religion; and Larycia Hawkins, a visiting professor of approaches is quite right. on a crowd of several hundred politics and religious studies.

“I should share my motivations people at Old Cabell Hall: “Walk Knowing that many have with you,” Kaine said. “If I told you cheerfully over the Earth answering questioned how Kaine can square the 10 positions I have on the 10 that of God in everyone.” his Roman Catholic faith with his issues you care the most about, … a Kaine, who is seeking his second support for abortion rights, sameyear from now, there will be an issue Senate term, says his Roman sex marriage and the ordination that wasn’t on that list … and you Catholic faith draws him to be out of women as priests, he opened his would have no way of knowing how among people, to listen without remarks by drawing a distinction I would vote on that. But if I share assuming and to see the humanity between personal faith and religious what motivates me … I’m giving you in each person he encounters. institutions.

It’s part of why he belongs to a He would describe his personal traditionally black Catholic parish faith as a “spirituality of action” and in Richmond where, as part of an effort to “emulate, in a human the minority, he is forced to listen and imperfect way, someone who is intently to others outside his own a role model for me.” lived experience.

He said that spiritual view It’s also why he attends the Senate emerged over the course of the year prayer breakfast on Wednesdays. he spent running a Jesuit vocational “It’s really hard to stab somebody school in Honduras during a hiatus in the back if you’ve been at the prayer breakfast with them,” he said from Harvard Law School in the early 1980s. to laughs, before adding: “It’s not Religion, on the other hand, is impossible.” about participating in an institution Kaine’s talk was sponsored as a mature adult and learning how

by UVa’s Miller Center — a nonpartisan affiliate that specializes to negotiate around the points of disagreement. in presidential scholarship, public “There’s no group or institution policy and political history — along that is a complete match for my with the Department of Religious personal views,” Kaine said. “If I Studies, the Virginia Center for had to agree 100 percent with the the Study of Religion and the Catholic dogma, I don’t know that Contemplative Sciences Center.

I would say I was a Catholic — just It was one of the first events held as if I were asked to believe 100 as part of the Miller Center’s new percent of the Democratic Party Democracy Initiative, which aims platform.” to engage a wide audience — from As for how religion influences his undergraduates to world leaders policy, Kaine acknowledged that — in examining and discussing the politicians may feel torn between issues and challenges confronting legislating according to one’s own today’s democracies. convictions and operating as a Panelists moderating the “scientific representative of the poll discussion were David Germano, median on any question” without director of the Contemplative Sciences Center; Charles Mathewes, personal faith playing into the

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a yardstick to try to determine what I might do and to constructively criticize me.”

In response to a panelist’s remarks on the symmetry of the political turmoil of the Trump era and abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, Kaine answered with the same “radical optimism” The New Yorker magazine attributed to him in a 2016 profile, when he was running for vice president.

“Yeah, well, the country I love is going through a tough time and my church is in a tough spot, but other than that,” he said, trailing off playfully.

He circled back to highlight his primary reason for optimism — the dramatic rise in first-time candidates running for office — and drew parallels to his continued participation in the Catholic Church.

“People are seeing there’s a broken place, and they’re responding to try to be part of repairing the broken place,” Kaine said.

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Woodward describes a “nervous breakdown” in the Trump administration clout, respect and reputation,” Godbeer said. “He has a way of getting insiders to open up, both on and off the record, in ways to reveal an intimate yet sweeping portrayal of Washington and the way it works.”

Woodward spoke in the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts and his talk was streamed to three overflow rooms, all of which were filled to capacity. A line to enter the Singleton Center began hours before his talk started and stretched for several blocks.

Woodward, whose books famously rely on anonymous or deep background sources, defended the use of unnamed sources in journalism. “I think we need more. Not off the record, we need deep background or background sources,” he said. “Because then you can get the truth. Too many lies on the record.” PHOTO: Kevin Morley BRIAN McNEILL Before a crowd of more than 1,300 at Virginia Commonwealth University last week, journalist Bob Woodward — author of the bestselling “Fear: Trump in the White House” — described a “nervous breakdown” in the executive branch and suggested the Trump administration is waging a “war on truth.”

“What is going on in the White House is there is a war on truth,” said Woodward, the iconic investigative journalist, author and associate editor of The Washington Post whose coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein won the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1973. “You have to deal with truth. Truth is

the foundation of how we have our debates and how people make their decisions.”

Woodward’s talk, “Truth, Freedom of Expression, Democracy and the Age of the American Presidency,” was part of the fall 2018 speaker series of the Humanities Research Center in the College of Humanities and Sciences and co-sponsored by VCU’s Office of the President and the Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture.

Humanities Research Center Director Richard Godbeer, Ph.D., introduced Woodward, calling the journalist the “ultimate inside man” who has shed light on the secret inner workings of Washington over half a century.

“No one else in political investigative journalism has his

‘He could not tell the truth’ Woodward is the author of 19 books, all of which have been national nonfiction bestsellers, chronicling American politics over nine presidencies. Much of his talk at VCU focused on his most recent work.

“I have done 19 books. The 19th, ‘Fear’ just came out. Trump loves it,” Woodward joked. “He accused me of being a Democratic operative.

Somebody told me they were talking to Hillary Clinton and she was leaning over so hard, laughing.

“The job, I believe, of the journalist is political neutrality,” Woodward said. “I don't come at this with any partisan motive. I've been called a leftist. I've been called somebody on the right, a Republican, a Democrat.

Somebody some months ago actually called me an ‘ultra centrist.’

Whatever that means, I'll accept it.”

The “war on truth” in the Trump White House, Woodward said, is best exemplified by a scene in “Fear” in which John Dowd, Trump’s then-attorney dealing with Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, held a mock interview with Trump on Jan. 27.

“They’re sitting there looking out at the Washington Monument, the Jefferson monument, and Dowd plays Mueller and starts asking Trump questions,” Woodward said.

“And Trump starts making things up, says things that are not true, gets very emotional, very wound up.

“And finally, after this practice session, Dowd says: ‘See, you can't testify. You are not capable of telling the truth. And, if you’re under oath, and you do what you did here, you're going to wind up in an orange jumpsuit.’

“He literally concluded that the president was incapable of testifying because he could not control himself, his emotions,” Woodward said. “He could not tell the truth. This is the president's own lawyer reaching this conclusion.”

Dowd, along with other members of the Trump administration, has denied that Woodward’s portrayal in the book is accurate.

Preventing World War III In another scene from “Fear” that Woodward described Tuesday, Gary Cohn, who was Trump’s chief economic adviser, realizes there is a draft letter on the president’s desk that would withdraw the United States from a South Korean trade deal. Cohn, Woodward said, feared that withdrawing from the deal would result in a geopolitical crisis and jeopardize national security.

“And so what does he do? He takes it off of the president's desk and puts it in a folder, realizing in the case of President Trump that if it's not on the desk or immediately available, he doesn't remember or does not think that he has to act on something,” Woodward said. “Gary Cohn is so worried, he asks the secretary of defense, [James] Mattis, to come to the Oval Office to tell the president, ‘You cannot do this. You cannot get out of this trade deal. It is the essence of national security.’ And for the moment, the president stays his hand.”

Then, on Jan. 19, the issue of South Korea comes up again at a National Security Council meeting, Woodward said. Trump, he said, seemed unable to understand why the U.S. relationship with South Korea was important for national

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(from page 10) security. “‘Why are we doing this? Why are we spending all this money?

Why do we have 28,000 American troops in South Korea and pay for it?’” Woodward said, quoting Trump. “‘Why this massive military presence in South Korea? What do we get from protecting all of these countries?’

“And Secretary of Defense Mattis is so concerned, he finally says to the president, ‘We're doing all of this to prevent World War III,’” Woodward said. “Can you imagine a secretary of defense in any administration having to tell the president we're doing all of these things to prevent World War III?” Trump goes on, Woodward said, to complain that the U.S. is losing too much money in trade with South Korea, China and others. “‘I think we could be so rich, if we weren't stupid,’” Woodward quoted Trump. “‘We’re being played as suckers, especially in all of the efforts we make in Europe with NATO.’ “The president just does not understand what is happening here,” Woodward said.

“He literally concluded that the president was incapable of testifying because he could not control himself, his emotions. He could not tell the truth. This is the president's own lawyer reaching this conclusion.”

‘A nervous breakdown’ Woodward suggested that a “nervous breakdown” had occurred in the Trump White House, as demonstrated by a scene in “Fear” in which then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is meeting in then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus’ office to review Tillerson’s work and whether he was meeting his objectives.

“Tillerson [says], ‘You guys in the White House, you don't have your act together,’” Woodward said. “This is all from notes that somebody took, by the way. ‘The president can't make a decision. He doesn't know how to make a decision. He won't make a decision. When he makes a decision, he changes his mind a couple of days later.’”

As Tillerson is talking, H.R.

McMaster, national security adviser, comes in and accuses Tillerson of refusing to work with the White House and of “affirmatively undermining the national security process,” Woodward said.

“Tillerson then says, ‘Oh, you know. Of course that's not true.

You know sometimes I'm out of the country and I can’t take your call,’” Woodward said. “Now imagine, you're secretary of state, you're abroad somewhere and they tell you there's a call from the White House.

The national security adviser would like to talk to you and you're too busy to take the call?”

Such a breakdown among top Trump administration officials, Woodward said, is worrisome.

“God help us if we have a crisis,” he said. “Because that’s when presidents and their administration and their team are tested. And if there’s no team, if there is a living, vibrating nervous breakdown going on, [they] can't deal with a crisis.

And crises come to the presidency all of the time.”

The demon pomposity In addition to “Fear,” Woodward also spoke extensively about the state of the news media.

He recalled how, after Richard Nixon resigned in the wake of The Washington Post’s Watergate coverage, the Post’s publisher and owner, Katharine Graham, wrote Woodward and Bernstein a letter with the advice: “Beware the demon

pomposity.” Or, as Woodward described it, “that crippling syndrome of self-importance, self-satisfaction, smugness, which overtakes all professions in the media.”

“You can see it on television, you can see it in the writings, you can see it certainly in politics,” he said.

“I think you even see the demon pomposity loose in academic life.”

The new media landscape, he said, has become driven by speed and impatience, and, too often, politics over nonpartisan journalism.

“I was talking to a Republican senator recently and I said, ‘I really worry about my business, the news media.’ And he said, ‘Oh, don't worry about your business. Everyone knows — Republicans, Democrats, left, right, center — that the news media is just another form of politics.’ Unfortunately, there is too much truth in that. We have become willfully members of a political dynamic rather than trying to call it down the middle, trying to deal with facts.”

“The job, I believe, of the journalist is political neutrality. I don't come at this with any partisan motive. I’ve been called a leftist. I’ve been called somebody on the right, a Republican, a Democrat. Somebody some months ago actually called me an ‘ultra centrist.’

Whatever that means, I'll accept it.”

Woodward, whose books famously rely on anonymous or deep background sources, defended the use of unnamed sources in journalism, saying they are the only way to get the truth.

“If I go to the White House or somebody's house at night and say, ‘Gee, I want you to tell me what’s going on, on the record,’ I'm going to get a press release. People do not, unfortunately, tell the truth on the record most of the time.

“So if somebody who’s in a position to know something, or should know something, you grant them anonymity,” he said. “But the deal is, what you tell me has to be the truth. And if it doesn't check out, I’m coming back at you and the deal may be off.”

Journalism, he said, needs more anonymous sources, particularly in the Trump era.

“My argument is, and this is not popular in journalism, I think we need more. Not off the record, we need deep background or background sources,” he said.

“Because then you can get the truth.

Too many lies on the record.”

During a Q&A, Woodward was asked his thoughts about a New York Times op/ed written by an anonymous official headlined “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.”

“It didn't have any specifics,” Woodward said. “It’s very important who the [author] is. And we don't know. Some editors at The New York Times know. I would think it’d have to be somebody with some authority, but there are no specifics.

I was citing the example [earlier] about the national security adviser meeting with the chief of staff and the secretary of state. Exactly when they met, where and what they said. If that person who wrote that anonymous article came to me, I'd say, ‘That's great. Now I want some specifics.’ If I couldn't get the specifics, I would say, ‘Take it to The New York Times.’

“That was a cheap shot,” he added.

“I think the reporters on the news side of The New York Times would have reacted the way I said.”

Woodward was also asked what advice he has for young, aspiring journalists.

“What advice for aspiring journalists? Work for a newspaper that Jeff Bezos buys,” he said. “It's not just the money. I’ve known him for years and he really is a believer in independent, aggressive press.”

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Best-selling author J.A. Jance to give free talk This year’s Virginia Peninsula Literary Consortium (VPLC) Author Talk and Book Signing will feature popular author J.A. Jance at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 11, on the campus of Christopher Newport University.

The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are recommended.

J.A. Jance is the New York Times best-selling author of more than fifty mysteries in four different series featuring J.P. Beaumont, Joanna Brady, Ali Reynolds, and the Walker family. She's also the author of a moving volume of poetry, After the Fire. Her most recent book is A Last Goodbye, an Ali Reynolds Novella.

Free tickets for the author talk, question-and-answer session and book signing are available at the sponsoring libraries of the VPLC, which consists of the public libraries of Newport News, Hampton, Poquoson and York County and the

academic libraries of Christopher Newport University, Hampton University and Thomas Nelson Community College.

Tickets are available on a firstcome, first-served basis and limited to two per person while supplies last. Open seating for the event, to be held in the ballroom of the David Student Union at Christopher Newport University, is limited, and attendees are advised to arrive early. New this year, the first 200 ticketed guests to arrive will each receive a goody bag. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Ticket holders will be seated first; any remaining seats will then be open to guests without tickets. A selection of J.A. Jance’s books will be available for purchase at the event.

This event is the 12th free author talk sponsored by the VPLC, which in the past few years presented the

Judith Ann Jance best-selling authors Orson Scott Card, Catherine Coulter, Nikki Giovanni, Jeff Shaara, T.C. Boyle, Brad Parks, Adriana Trigiani, and C.J. Box. The Consortium formed

in 2006 to encourage the study and enjoyment of books and to foster cooperation among all types of libraries on the Peninsula.

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Law allowing free credit freezes takes effect A federal law that recently took effect will help people protect their identity by allowing them to freeze and unfreeze their credit files for free.

According to a release, the free credit freezes are the result of a provision included in a bipartisan bill Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced to boost economic growth and protect consumers.

The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law in May and includes a provision requiring all three major credit agencies, Equifax, Experian and Transunion, to allow consumers to freeze their credit for no fee.

Experts say credit freezes are among the best tools to help people protect against identity theft.

“Credit freezes are one of the best ways that consumers can protect themselves against identity theft that could hurt their credit scores," said Warner. “Good credit is essential if you want to buy a house, get a small business loan, or simply apply for a new credit card. Free credit freezes give consumers a new tool to protect themselves against criminals seeking to steal their identity.”

Before this law, credit bureaus charged as much as $10 per bureau to play a freeze on a person's credit file. A similar fee would then also be charged to temporarily remove the freeze if the consumer wanted to apply for new credit.

A study conducted by AARP found that fewer than 15 percent of American adults have ordered

security freezes on their credit more than a year after a data breach at Equifax exposed personal information, including Social Security numbers, birth dates and other sensitive details, for about 148 million Americans.

With the provision of the law that recently took effect, the nationwide credit agencies must each set up a webpage for requesting fraud alerts and credit freezes.

Consumers will need to contact the three main bureaus to place a credit freeze on their accounts.

The release says the new law also allows parents to freeze their children’s credit reports.

Research has found more than a million children were the victims of identity theft last year, two-thirds of whom were seven years old or younger.

The law also allows the duration of a fraud alert on a consumer’s credit report to last for one year instead of 90 days, and it requires businesses that check a consumer’s credit to get the consumer's approval before opening an account.

All active-duty military service members will get free credit monitoring under the law, and it will protect the credit ratings of veterans who have been penalized by medical bill payment delays by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Certain people who disclose suspected exploitation of seniors will be able to gain immunity from liability, according to the release.

And the U.S. Treasury Department will be required to submit a report to Congress on the risks of cyber threats to financial institutions and the U.S. capital markets.

The bill also provides relief for community banks and credit unions so they can support rural consumers seeking loans or mortgages.

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Delegates seek review of prison tampon ban House Democratic Caucus members are requesting alternative policies on a recently announced ban on tampons in Virginia prisons.

Del. Mike Mullin (D-93) penned a letter to the Virginia Department of Corrections last week, expressing concerns about the proposed policy that would bar female visitors from wearing tampons. The Department of Public Safety suspended the policy and its start date also last week for further review.

Mullin, along with 27 other members of the House Democratic Caucus, offered to discuss alternative options to prevent contraband from entering prisons.

The letter is as follows: “As members of the General Assembly, we understand that safety in Virginia’s correctional centers is of utmost priority. We have concerns, however, about recent reports of a new policy being implemented in state-run facilities across the Commonwealth. We are concerned that this blanket policy may place an undue burden on women visiting friends or loved ones incarcerated in our correctional centers. Female visitors on their menstrual cycle should not be barred from wearing tampons or menstrual cups during visits to facilities. Women should not be subject to limited options for coverage, such as only being allowed to wear a sanitary pad. Not only does this border on sexual harassment and gender discrimination in instances where a visitor is forced to use a facility-provided pad, but it is also a religious rights violation in some cases.

“We greatly appreciate the September 25, 2018, efforts of Secretary Brian Moran and your office to suspend this new policy and halt its effective date of October 6, 2018, while new initiatives are explored. We, too, believe there are better ways to prevent drugs from being brought into correctional facilities. One such option is to scan offenders as they leave their visits, to ensure no contraband has been transferred from an outside visitor. Drug overdoses that have occurred within the four walls of our correctional facilities are preventable if the right measures are in place.

These measures need not include the invasion of privacy of female visitors.

“We would be more than happy to discuss alternative safety and security measures to prevent contraband from entering our correctional facilities; please do not hesitate to contact us.”

The ban provoked critical responses from civil rights advocates who said it harmed both prisoners and their visitors.

On Twitter, Moran wrote that while he understood the state Department of Corrections’

Left: Virginia Department of Corrections Director Harold Clarke.

Right: Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Brian Moran. “precautionary steps to detect the rising threat of contraband, overdoses and even deaths among our offender population,” he noted that “a number of concerns have been raised about the new procedure.” He said it was appropriate to “immediately suspend the newly developed policy until a more thorough review of its implementation and potential consequences are considered.”

Had the ban be enacted as it was announced, visitors to Virginia’s prison system would have been prohibited from using tampons or menstrual cups inside the facilities to reduce the possibility of smuggling contraband, state corrections officials said, adding that prisons would have offered pads for use during visits.

A memo by state corrections operations chief A. David Robinson to the prison wardens said that new full-body screening systems at the prisons have “effectively captured multiple images of hidden objects on the person of staff, volunteers and visitors,” and that raised questions “about feminine hygiene products being an ideal way to conceal contraband.”

As a result, Robinson wrote, visitors will be notified that tampons and menstrual cups may no longer be used during visits. Women who use the items and are caught on the body-scan machine will not be allowed to visit inmates, and those visitors will have their visitation privileges reviewed.

“There have been many instances,” state corrections spokeswoman Lisa Kinney said in an email, “in which visitors have attempted to smuggle drugs into our prisons by concealing those drugs in a body cavity, including the vagina.” She said pads, which are used externally, would be offered to visitors so that tampons “don’t appear as possible contraband on a body scan.”

Kinney noted that “offenders in Virginia have died of drug overdoses while inside our prisons.

It’s our job to keep the offenders and staff as safe as we can.” She said the policy was devised after consulting with the office of Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D). The starting date of enforcement was left up to the warden of each institution, Kinney said.

Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, criticized the policy. “Any policy that discourages visitors is,” Gastañaga said, “one that should be subject to the most exacting and careful review. In addition, a policy like this one that requires those who wish to visit people who are incarcerated to set aside their dignity and health is simply unacceptable.”

The ACLU called on Department of Corrections Director Harold Clarke to immediately clarify the policy and “to reverse any policy or practice that limits the visitation rights of visitors who are menstruating without regard to which hygiene product they choose to use.”

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Government-supported race discrimination suppressing black homeownership HAZEL TRICE EDNEY TE-Wire - Despite the fact that the Fair Housing Act was passed

by Congress more than 50 years ago, evidence now reveals that government-supported racial discrimination in home buying remains rampant across the U.S. yet, with little legislative remedy or recourse.

This is the reason that members of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB), a 71-yearold organization of black real estate professionals, are pushing for Congress and policy influencers to take action after a NAREB-issued report and a panel of independent housing experts confirmed pervasive discrimination in homeownership.

“Trends leave us today with a Black homeownership rate of 41.6 percent - merely the same as it was just two years after the signing of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Yes, there are reasons,” said NAREB President Jeffrey Hicks. “There has been decades of federal, state and local government supported discriminatory housing and housing finance policies, disparate lending patterns, redlining, and exploitation, resulting in unimaginable losses of wealth.”

Hicks was giving opening remarks to an audience of hundreds of people assembled at a two-hour NAREB forum during the recent Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference (CBCF-ALC) in Washington, D.C. “Let me be clear. We are here assembled in this room to begin down a road to solutions identifying the key areas where policy changes can have a measurable impact and create a space for true democracy in housing allowing all people of our nation to climb up the middle class ladder to build wealth through home ownership,” Hicks continued.

U. S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), member, House Financial Services Committee, assures action from a Congressional perspective. PHOTO: Imagine Photography “NAREB believes it is possible and doable.”

Following Hicks’ remarks, a string of policy experts - including U. S. Rep. Gregory Meeks - agreed that the matter is dire. Startling findings documented in the 2018 State of Housing in Black America (SHIBA) report, commissioned by NAREB, undergird their sentiments.

According to the SHIBA: The gap in homeownership between blacks and non-Hispanic whites remained at 30 percentage points between 2015 and 2016, with homeowner­ship rates of 42 percent and 72 percent respectively.

This 30-percentage-point gap in homeownership is the highest it has been in the new millennium.

Black homeownership is more than 7 percentage points below its peak, achieved in 2004, of just under 50 percent.

In the 10 cities with the largest black populations, segregation remains extremely high with dissimilarity rates ranging from a low of .60 in Detroit to a high of .83 in Chicago. Washington, D.C. stands

at .70. The dissimilarity index measures the extent to which blacks would have to move to different census tracts in order to achieve an even geographic distribution of households by race throughout the city. Dissimilarity indices over .60 are generally considered high.

Since the peak year of black homeownership in 2004, black gains have been eviscerated due largely to the failure of federal financial regulatory agencies to prohibit predatory loan products that were disproportionately peddled to affect black consumers, as well as insensitive federal policies that provide less assistance to black households facing foreclosure than to non-Hispanic white homeowners.

Federal housing regulators have aggressively pursued lending practices that make access to homeownership more challenging than necessary for lower- and moderate-income and black households.

More than twice as many of black applicants (50 percent) applied for FHA-insured loans in 2016

compared to white applicants (23 percent). Conversely, fewer black applicants (32 percent) sought conventional financing, half the rate of non-Hispanic white applicants (64 percent) seeking conventional financing.

Congressman Meeks (D-N.Y.), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, promised that black homeownership - viewed as a key vehicle for black wealth - will not be continually overlooked or purposely ignored by lawmakers.

If Democrats win control of the House, Meeks hinted that the continued housing crisis in the black community will be high on the legislative agenda.

“It is still the basic and most important and probably the biggest investment that people of color will ever make in their lifetime. And those of us in Congress learned our mistakes. We’re going to fix it so that this will never happen again,” said Meeks, whose congressional office sponsored the recent forum.

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Wilder Symposium

The 2018 Wilder Symposium at Virginia Commonwealth University will explore the challenges and opportunities facing urban communities as they seek to improve in the areas of housing, education and public policy.

The L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs will host the symposium, “By the People: The Role of Urban Communities in Improving Housing, Education and Public Policy,” from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, 922 Park Ave. The event will be free and open to the public.

Leading the conversation will be: L. Douglas Wilder, 66th governor of Virginia Susan Gooden, Ph.D., interim dean of the Wilder School U.S. Rep. Robert “Bobby” Scott of Virginia’s 3rd District Melody Barnes, chair, Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and Opportunity Youth Forum; former assistant to the president and director, White House Domestic Policy Council Anthony “Tony” Miller, deputy secretary and chief operating officer, U.S. Department of Education William “Bill” Spriggs, Ph.D., chief economist, AFL-CIO; professor of economics, Howard University; former assistant secretary for the Office of Policy at the Department of Labor Fabrizio Fasulo, Ph.D., director of the Wilder School's Center for Urban and Regional Analysis Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Ph.D., associate professor, educational leadership, VCU School of Education Benjamin Teresa, Ph.D., assistant professor, Wilder School’s Urban and Regional Studies and Planning program Robert “Bob” Holsworth, Ph.D., managing partner of DecideSmart, will moderate. Matthew Conrad, executive director of government and board relations for VCU, will make remarks.

To submit a question for the panelists’ consideration, email wilderforum@vcu.edu.

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Nonprofit organizations can now apply to be designated as an official 2019 One City Marathon charity. Applications are available on the marathon website at www.onecitymarathon.com/charity. The deadline to apply is Oct. 5. The number of charities selected will be determined once applications have been received and reviewed. Preference will be given to organizations located in Newport News and those that serve Newport News residents.

Through a careful selection process, partner status is awarded to organizations that best demonstrate effective impact on the community, support the One City Marathon’s primary goals, and provide a creative plan to get involved with the event. Partnerships are for one year and are not a guarantee for future events as the marathon strives to partner with new organizations each year.

Criteria for organizations to apply to be an official One City Marathon charity: · Must be a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit; · Must be in operation for a minimum of one year; · Must create a link on its website to the Marathon website; · Must commit to a minimum of four runners (excluding the Nautical Mile); · Must guarantee a minimum of 20 volunteers for the event weekend; and · Must host at least one “activation activity” prior to race weekend.

The selected charitable partners will benefit from: · Promotion on the marathon website and through social media; · Booth space at the two-day One City Health and Wellness Expo and at the One City, One Celebration post-race event; · Donation opportunities through the “Run for Free” program where runners can receive a free entry by raising a set amount of money on behalf of an official charity; and · Use of the CrowdRise platform to directly solicit individual donations.

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Coming just ahead of Valentine’s Day, participants will be challenged to work with their partner to integrate individual values and goals into a comprehensive financial plan.

The “Financial Conversations for Couples” workshop will be offered from 6:30 – 8 p.m. at the Henrico County Public Library Fairfield Branch, 1001 N. Laburnum Ave., Richmond. Couples are encouraged to attend the workshop together.

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(from page 15) The release of the SHIBA report coincided with a robust panel discussion. Experts not only expressed disdain for the status quo, but also outlined their views and policies that would remedy the racial discrimination in home buying.

Keynote speaker Richard Rothstein, senior research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, pointed out how Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954, abolished segregation in elementary and secondary school systems and gave rise to the civil rights movement with its marches and sit-ins to abolish civil rights violations in other areas of American life.

He illustrated everything from buses to lunch counters to public accommodations to water fountains.

“Yet, having done all this, we’ve left untouched the biggest segregation of all,” Rothstein said. “Today we have segregated neighborhoods all over the country and these segregated patterns create the most serious social problems this country faces; including the achievement gaps between black and white students, health disparities, and violence visited on AfricanAmericans by police.”

This has continued largely because people have accepted the myth that so-called “de facto” segregation is not because of government policies, Rothstein said. An example of “de facto” segregation would be White concentration in a particular school simply because the surrounding neighborhood is predominately white.

“It’s a myth that - unlike all the other segregations I've described, segregation in housing wasn't created by government,” he said. “And we tell ourselves that residential segregation will happen by accident; unlike the other kinds of segregations I’ve described.”

Rothstein concluded, “There is no such thing as de facto segregation.

What we have in this country is a government-sponsored, government-

James H. Carr, senior fellow, Roosevelt Institute; co-author, SHIBA report. PHOTO: Imagine Photography created system of residential segregation, the history about which we have entirely forgotten. Because we’ve forgotten this history, because we’ve forgotten this myth we feel powerless to do something about it.”

The audience applauded enthusiastically when Rothstein concluded that the first step must be “to disabuse ourselves of this myth” and false historic teachings...

We need to do something about that first to create the beginnings of a new civil rights movement in order to continue the unfinished work of the civil rights movement of the 20th century. Once we’ve done that we can begin to have the kinds of conversations that’s necessary.”

Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow James H. Carr, a co-author of the SHIBA report, illustrated, in a nutshell, how discrimination is embedded throughout the process by which most African-Americans seek homeownership.

“If we’ve been racially discriminated against such that we

don't have the wealth, then how can we all of sudden have the down payment of 15 and 20 percent? And if we don’t have that down payment when we go for a loan, we then pay almost astronomical amounts of insurance and fees to compensate for the fact that we don’t have the 20 percent down payment. Is that de facto or de sure? Is that disparate impact?” Carr quizzed. “Sounds like there’s a problem. So the conclusion of sorts of the context for this year’s report is simply this: Not only have we not put into place remedies that are as powerful as the negative forces that have driven blacks into this precarious financial state, but we're still having federal policies and actions that further drive us into a financial abyss.”

The panel also included Lisa Rice, president and CEO National Fair Housing Alliance; Mark Alston, owner, Skyway Realty and Alston & Associates Mortgage Co., chair, Public Affairs Committee NAREB; Maurice Jourdain-Earl;

managing director and co-founder ComplianceTech; and Alanna McCargo, vice president, Housing Finance Policy, Urban Institute.

Hicks concluded that NAREB would be moving forward with a vigorous push for democracy in homeownership.

“We started this conversation by saying we do not see ourselves as just wallowing and discussing the problems and the history, but also talking about solutions, he said.

He outlined three primary policy principles that “we believe we want to help push forward in this country.”

They are, in part: * Promote homeownership as a high priority public policy with support for the mortgage interest tax deduction; creation of a taxadvantaged first-time homebuyer down payment savings vehicle; and preservation of the affordable 30year fixed rate mortgage. * Create “loan level equality,” or the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions; prevent biases or privileges in the mortgage origination process, and ensure consistent pricing and terms for similarly situated borrowers, with no penalties or higher prices based on neighborhoods, zip codes or census-tracts. * Create a federal accountability structure for the expanding nondepository lender market that will monitor their origination, pricing and lending practices to ensure practices are fair, equitable and nondiscriminatory.

Rothstein, also the author of the book, “The Color of Law, a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America”, concluded that any successful movement must take place with the inclusion of both blacks and whites.

“We need allies,” he said. “We can’t progress in this area without a biracial movement, a new civil rights movement, which has always been bi-racial. And we need the bully pulpit of politicians like members of the Congressional Black Caucus.”

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